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title: “The newspapers appeared forthwith with a border of hearts and the i… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 34

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“The newspapers appeared forthwith with a border of hearts and the initials of the Princess; and therein you might read that every good-looking young man was at liberty to come to the palace and speak to the Princess; and he who spoke in such wise as showed he felt himself at home there, that one the Princess would choose for her husband.

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**Who acts:** newspapers, you, looking young man, man, one · **What happens:** appear, read, look, be, come, speak · **To what, where:** that, liberty, palace, man, home, Princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (newspapers, you, looking young man, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:13:34
# text = “The newspapers appeared forthwith with a border of hearts and the initials of the Princess; and therein you might read that every good-looking young man was at liberty to come to the palace and speak to the Princess; and he who spoke in such wise as showed he felt himself at home there, that one the Princess would choose for her husband.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	initials	initial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	obj	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	amod	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	xcomp	_	_
51	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
52	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	ccomp	_	_
55	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	54	obj	_	_
56	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
58	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
60	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	61	det	_	_
61	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	65	nsubj	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nsubj	_	_
64	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
65	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	conj	_	_
66	for	for	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	68	nmod:poss	_	_
68	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** *in a quote* | past | the newspapers |  |  |  |  | with a border of hearts and the initials of the Princess; forthwith *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **read** *in a quote* | might | you | that |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | every looking young man |  |  | liberty |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Princess | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to princess=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | man |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **show** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **feel** *in a quote* | past | man | man |  | home; there |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at home=Location |
| 10 | **choose** *in a quote* | would | that one |  |  |  |  | for Princess's husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for husband=Beneficiary |
| 11 | **initial** *in a quote* |  |  | the Princess |  |  |  |  | nom initial «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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